Book V - Snyder Bible

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signed by providence, is always kept orderly; but the courses
of the moon, in comparison of the course of the sun, seem to
the unskillful to be inordinate and unsettled in her waxings
and wanings. For the sun moves in fixed and orderly periods,
for from him are hours, from him the day when he rises, from
him also the night when he sets; from him months and years
are reckoned, from him the variations of seasons are produced;
while, rising to the higher regions, he tempers the
spring; but when he reaches the top of the heaven, he kindles
roduces the temper of
autumn; and when he returns to his lowest circle, he be-
heaven.
Chapter XLVI: Sun and Moon Both Minister Good and Evil.
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is that good servant for regulating the changes of the seasons,
yet, when chastisement is inflicted upon men according to the
will of Elohim, he glows more fiercely and burns up the world
with more vehement fires? In like manner also the course of
the moon, and that changing which seems to the unskillful to
be disorderly, is adapted to the growth of crops, and cattle,
and all living creatures; for by her waxings and wanings, by a
certain wonderful contrivance of providence, everything that
is born is nourished and grows. We could speak about that
more at length and unfold the matter in detail, but that seems
to be enough to answer the question as proposed. So, by the
very same appliances by which they are produced, all things
are nourished and increased! On the other hand when, from
any just cause, the regulation of the appointed order is
changed, corruption and distemper arise, so that chastisement
may come upon men by the will of Elohim, as we have said
above.